Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-31292193-20170322215318/@comment-31292193-20170414142055

Robepriority wrote: A few issues, mainly pretaining how this isn't smogon.

Not sure how much time it would take to breed BellyDrum/AQjet along with getting a high enough level to be a help during campaign. Nor am I sure whether citrus berry is even obtainable yet.

Knock off would be a great move, but is it relearned or TM?

Swords Dance/Baton Pass Scoliopede seems quite unessasary for Medicham, usually its the unable to outspeed/sashers that pose problems. Only thing that it seems useful for it is boosting absol to get OHKO's w/ suckerpunch

Shaymin S and (M)Gengar are Ubers in smogon, especially with shadowtag or Serene Grace strats. But (this is a matter of opinion) I seriously believe these are just as bad as doing legend teams, and even if I was desprate for a meta-linearizing strategy, I would be using minimize drifblim/clefable.

Not sure why rotom H of all things is what your most eager to sub. I know, its UU, but the volt switch and wisp are pretty useful utilities, along with the overheat threat to metagross and even the infamous weakness policy aegislash. I was talking about Gengar, not Mega Gengar. I don't even think Perish Tag is viable, but subseedflinch...utolipede has pretty nice offensive presence by itself, and Gengar could run Will-O-Wisp and you could knock off megahorn in favour of U-Turn. Aegislash would be safely dealt with a +2 Earthquake from Scolipede (going to run a damage calc now...

OK. It will guaranteed OHKO fully defensive Aegislash Shield without a defense boosting nature and Stealth Rock on Aegislash's side of the field, and Guaranteed OHKO with defensive nature with Stealth Rock and 1 spike up. Same goes to metagross, except it can guaranteed OHKO normal metagross with full defense investment, and the result is the same as aegislash when it comes to Mega Metagross.

By the way, what is so bad about legend teams?

''Neither. Move Tutor. That sucks.'' So much for that on absol.

Also, Scolipede can punch way past psychic Pokémon, and is a simple stop to Malamar, which is a pain to deal with. Steelix doesn't have a nice time with Scolipede either, although the defense stat is HUGE. Seeing as you're determined not to use Shaymin - Sky, you could sub venusaur for Rotom Heat, or gengar. (Not mega.)

It's not as much it being UU, but not most ideal for this team. Doesn't cover all the weaknesses, in my opinion. You know, swoobat is RU, but incredibly powerful. Same with Sigilyph. Nice figuring out that I browse smogon, BTW. I play a lot of pokemon showdown, so I have to get accustomed to it. We're playing PBB, not smogon, so we don't have tiering (although I would like to see it).